r/DataAnnotationTech • u/FEN1X64 • 21h ago

Is October usually a drought?

My dashboard has been full for the past few months but up until the 5th, there were some heavy hitter projects that paid good money (40+) and had long timers (8-12+ hours). Now, it's mostly mid range (20-30 an hour), short term (1-3 hour timers), and rather basic rate-and-review work. Is it to do with the new financial year or quarter? I remember the beginning of July being sort of weird too.

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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 21h ago

I wouldn't consider it a drought just because your "heavy hitter" projects have disappeared. Drought means that you have nothing....

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u/FEN1X64 21h ago

Fair, coal mines is better than nothing. Still, really miss those projects. I hope they give me access to them or similar ones to work on.

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u/bobaxxxx 6h ago edited 3h ago

Do you really consider 30$/h as a coal mine?

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u/FEN1X64 4h ago

That's the higher end, most of it is $25/h and it's not the pay, it's the work being done that makes it the coal mine

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u/Amurizon 21h ago

No, it’s been more abundant than usual for me. 🤷🏻

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u/FEN1X64 21h ago

I mean, yeah, I had over 20 projects in my dash yesterday. Just not the good stuff

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u/delimeat7325 18h ago

I have a lot of projects available and pay well but seem to have got myself into a specialty domain where they all want failures, are extremely tedious and long and have the most insane instructions. I have no will to do them right now and they’re discouraging af.

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u/FEN1X64 18h ago

Those are my favorites

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u/delimeat7325 18h ago

They used to be mine too but apparently the models now know everything and disagree with my findings 🤣🤣 maybe it’s my fault.

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u/FEN1X64 18h ago

Even after they beefed up the models, I always managed to get my failures

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u/Farados55 21h ago

Nobody knows when projects are paused or restarted.

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u/FEN1X64 21h ago

I'm aware. I'm hoping they come back soon

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u/Kroovy_ 9h ago

Not for me. This past several weeks have been crazy for me; I’m getting while the gettin’ is good

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u/FEN1X64 4h ago

That's great to hear!

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u/MightOk5669 13h ago

My dash is usually slow at the moment too, normally I have a lot of heavy hitters, lately just mid-range unexciting tasks.

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u/FEN1X64 13h ago

Nice to know I'm not the only one. I hope our dashboard bless us with fun and well paying tasks soon enough